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5 Project Descriptions: 21st Century Data
5 Project Descriptions: 21st Century Data
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CiteSeer, which provides autonomous citation indexing, reference linking, full text indexing, and other features, has approximately 800,000 users, Giles noted, and covers approximately 3 million documents. CollabSeer recommends potential research collaborators based on characteristics of their previous work, and approximately 400,000 authors have participated.
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Another challenge has been taking the programs to scale, and Giles explained that they have been beta tested and brought to scale with the collaboration of many researchers. The result is an infrastructure for the creation of academic and scientific specialty search engines and digital libraries that is easy to use and to apply to new domains.
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The two least frequently cited reasons were that language in their informed consent documentation prevented sharing, or that their institutional review board would not allow it. 48 ENERGY POLICY FOR THE POOR Catherine Eckel, Texas A&M University Catherine Eckel and her colleagues explored the practical application of a policy tool by collecting data on the implementation of a federal policy, the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP)
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policy." Thus, in her view, it is important to include stakeholders from the beginning in designing policies so that they will reflect the needs of the communities they are intended to serve. RETRACTIONS AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES Jeff Furman, Boston University Scientists make mistakes, and Jeff Furman noted the "perception that there is now more false science than there had been." His research examined scientific work that was retracted after having been reviewed by peers and published, and the role of institutions in the accumulation and regulation of accurate scientific knowledge.
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They began with metrics devised for the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, 51 which was designed to spur interdisciplinary research in the United States. For the research publications covered by this program, they extracted cited references and used the Web of Science subject categories to classify them.
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SOURCE: Presentation to SciSIP Principal Investigators' Conference by Alan Porter and Ismael Rafols, 2012. SURVEY ON GLOBAL VALUE CHAINS Tim Sturgeon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tim Sturgeon used findings from a 2010 National Organizations Survey (NOS)
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53 A QUALITY-ADJUSTED PRICE INDEX FOR CLINICAL TRIALS RESEARCH Iain Cockburn, Boston University Iain Cockburn and his colleagues analyzed trends in the costs of doing clinical trials. They focused on payments to clinicians by trial sponsors, and used "hedonic" price index methods to estimate the rate of inflation in commercial clinical trials from 1989 to 2009, controlling for trial characteristics.
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The second data set resulted from the researchers' work to scan publications in the chemical sciences by University of California researchers from 1975 to 2005. The first step in the analysis, Lei explained, was to map patents granted to UC researchers to their publications.
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A statistical text-mining algorithm was used to analyze and identify topics covered by the titles and project descriptions of all proposals submitted to the NSF between 2000 and 2011. In the Portfolio Explorer, all proposals were tagged with up to four topics each and also linked to other data, so that "you can use the topics to get at the awards and all the associated information, like award amounts, funding programs, PIs, PI institutions, and so forth," Nichols observed.
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This analysis revealed patterns in the work funded by NSF. For example, such programs as Antarctic Earth Sciences, the Continental Dynamics Program, and Sedimentary Geology and Paleontology ranked very high for interdisciplinarity, while Human Cognition and Perception, and General Age Related Disabilities Engineering ranked on the low end.
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